Watch: Biden Economic Adviser on how to explain High Gas Prices to families: ‘This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm’
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/06/30/biden_economic_adviser_on_high_gas_prices_this_is_about_the_future_of_the_liberal_world_order.html By Ian Schwartz Brian Deese, President Biden’s Director of National Economic Council, defended the administration’s energy policies on Thursday in an interview on CNN. “What we heard from the president today was about the stakes,” Deese said. “This is about the future of the liberal world order and we have to stand […]
IEA: Europe Will Have To Cut Gas Usage By Nearly One-Third – Germany warns ‘gas is a scarce asset’
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/IEA-Europe-Will-Have-To-Cut-Gas-Usage-By-Nearly-One-Third.html By Julianne Geiger In the first quarter of next year, the countries of the European Union will have to cut their usage of natural gas by up to 30% in preparation for a complete stoppage of Russian gas flows, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). IEA Director Fatih Birol on Tuesday […]
Macron to Biden, maybe: Drill, baby, drill!
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/06/28/macron-to-biden-maybe-drill-baby-drill-n479255 By ED MORRISSEY Is that the message that French president Emmanuel Macron gave Joe Biden after buttonhooking him at the G-7 summit? According to Newsweek and video clips making the rounds on social media, it does appear that Macron cast a lot of cold water on Biden’s attempt to alleviate his oil crisis by […]
POLITICO: ‘America’s climate push is in peril’ – ‘Stalled climate action all but guarantees the U.S. won’t do its part to meet goals of 2015 UN Paris climate accords’
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2022/06/27/bidens-climate-chaos-hits-global-stage-00042520 By ARIANNA SKIBELL The great climate muddle — After his inauguration, President Joe Biden charged into the Oval Office and drafted a series of game-changing, economy-altering plans to save the planet from a slow-creep heat death. A year and change later, progress has been slow. And Biden’s toolbox may be shrinking. Republicans wary of […]
Soaring Global Coal Use Is Obliterating Emission Reductions Achieved in the U.S. Since 2005
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/06/26/soaring_global_coal_use_is_obliterating_emission_reductions_achieved_in_the_us_since_2005_839166.html By Robert Bryce The global energy crisis has resulted in a spasm of energy realism and plain talk. Last week, Vaclav Bartuška, the Czech Ambassador-at-Large for energy security, told a group of reporters that “If there is a gas cut out this winter, we will burn anything we can to keep our people warm and to make […]
Biden is Band-Aiding Again: This Time With a Gasoline Tax Holiday
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/biden-is-band-aiding-again-this-time-with-a-gasoline-tax-holiday/ BY IER President Biden is grasping at straws to reduce gasoline prices because he refuses to let the American people have access to oil and gas on their lands or modify regulations to encourage new refineries to be built. Instead, he has asked Congress to pass a gasoline tax holiday lifting the 18.4 cent […]
EU Says Africa Should Stop Buying Russian Fertilizer — But Can’t Make It Themselves – Fertilizer production in Africa ‘would clash with EU green goals’
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/eu-says-africa-should-stop-buying-russian-fertilizer-shouldnt-make-it-themselves BY TYLER DURDEN In an attempt to encourage African nations to stop buying Russian fertilizer, the European Union developed a working plan that would help then develop their own fertilizer plants. The draft, dated June 15 and prepared by aides of European Council President Charles Michel, was to be presented at a summit of EU […]
China Calls for ‘Urgent’ Coal Production to Stave Off Blackouts
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2022/06/24/china-calls-for-urgent-coal-production-to-stave-off-blackouts/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social By GABRIELLE REYES The premier of China’s State Council, Li Keqiang, “urged” energy officials to ramp up coal production this week to stave off electricity blackouts across several Chinese provinces experiencing record power usage during a regional heatwave, the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper reported Friday. Li, who heads China’s top administrative authority, “urged tapping into […]
Cheers! ‘Climate backtracking’: Germany Pushes for G-7 Reversal on Fossil Fuels in Climate Blow – ‘U-turn in global efforts to fight climate change’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-25/germany-pushes-for-g-7-reversal-on-fossil-fuels-in-climate-blow By Alberto Nardelli, Chiara Albanese, and Jess Shankleman Germany is pushing for Group of Seven nations to walk back a commitment that would halt the financing of overseas fossil fuel projects by the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter. That would be a major reversal on tackling climate change as […]
Energy Crisis Is A Taste Of What The IEA Has In Store For Us – IEA’s 2021 net-zero Roadmap plan: ‘No Investment in new fossil fuel supply projects’
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/06/11/energy-crisis-is-a-taste-of-what-the-iea-has-in-store-for-us/ By Paul Homewood Biden may call it the “Putin price hike”, but the root cause of our energy crisis has been festering for a few years now. Tilak Doshi details how the oil and gas sector in the West has been starved of investment in this Forbes article. Governmental climate policies, pressure on banks from […]